The auditory cortex of the bat
BMC Neuroscience, 2008 Background The mammalian auditory cortex can be subdivided into various fields characterized by neurophysiological and neuroarchitectural properties and by connections with different nuclei of the thalamus.
Schwellnus Britta +4 more
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Cyto- and myeloarchitectural brain atlas of the pale spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus discolor) in CT Aided Stereotaxic Coordinates [PDF]
Brain Structure and Function, 2020 The pale spear-nosed bat Phyllostomus discolor, a microchiropteran bat, is well established as an animal model for research on the auditory system, echolocation and social communication of species-specific vocalizations.
Herbert Peremans +2 more
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Echolocation calls and communication calls are controlled differentially in the brainstem of the bat
BMC Biology, 2005 Background Echolocating bats emit vocalizations that can be classified either as echolocation calls or communication calls. Neural control of both types of calls must govern the same pool of motoneurons responsible for vocalizations.
Schuller Gerd, Fenzl Thomas
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Vocal production learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2020 Vocal production learning (VPL), or the ability to modify vocalizations through the imitation of sounds, is a rare trait in the animal kingdom. While humans are exceptional vocal learners, few other mammalian species share this trait.
Lattenkamp EZ, Vernes SC, Wiegrebe L.
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Post-natal development of the envelope following response to amplitude modulated sounds in the bat Phyllostomus discolor. [PDF]
Hearing Research, 2020 Bats use a large repertoire of calls for social communication, which are often characterized by temporal amplitude and frequency modulations. As bats are considered to be among the few mammalian species capable of vocal learning, the perception of ...
Stephen G. Hörpel, U. Firzlaff
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Cochlear sensitivity in the lesser spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor
Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 2004 Behavioral auditory thresholds of Phyllostomus discolor are characterized by two threshold minima separated by an insensitive region at about 55 kHz (Esser and Daucher 1996). To investigate whether these characteristics are due to cochlear properties, we
Manfred Kössl, Markus Drexl
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The absence of spatial echo suppression in the echolocating bats Megaderma lyra and Phyllostomus discolor [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006 SUMMARY Acoustic orientation most often takes place in echoic environments. The mammalian auditory system shows a variety of specializations to suppress misleading spatial information mediated by echoes. Psychophysically these specializations are summarized as the precedence effect. This study investigates how echolocating bats deal with
Maike Schuchmann +2 more
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Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2022 The structure of the mammalian auditory brainstem is evolutionarily highly plastic, and distinct nuclei arrange in a species‐dependent manner. Such anatomical variability is present in the superior olivary complex (SOC) and the nuclei of the lateral ...
Christina Pätz +2 more
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Expanded diversity of novel hemoplasmas in rare and undersampled Neotropical bats [PDF]
One Health, 2023 Hemotropic mycoplasmas are emerging as a model system for studying bacterial pathogens in bats, but taxonomic coverage of sampled host species remains biased. We leveraged a long-term field study in Belize to uncover novel hemoplasma diversity in bats by
Dmitriy V. Volokhov +11 more
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Morphophysiology and ultrastructure of the male reproductive accessory glands of the bats Carollia perspicillata, Glossophaga soricina and Phyllostomus discolor (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). [PDF]
Acta Histochemica, 2016 The male reproductive accessory glands (RAGs) are important organs that contribute to the secretion of different substances that composed the ejaculate. Despite this important function, their composition, anatomy and function vary widely between species.
F. F. Martins +5 more
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